Hi Sam, > The patchset will likely not see testing on: > - Javastation (the pcic changes) > - sun4m with multiple CPUs > - sun4c > > I have checked the nearby ebay's for relevant boxes - no luck. > On the other hand there is also a limit for the size of > my SUN museum :-) I've got a small "SUN museum" ... sun4c: SPARCstation IPX sun4m: SPARCstation5 (microSPARC II) sun4m: SPARCstation20 (two-way superSPARC II) sun4m: SPARCstation20 (four-way hyperSPARC Colorado-3) Never got the IPX running on 2.6, but the others are spinning just fine on some 2.6.1x UP (x=low). I'm looking forward to give your patchset a try. Best, M On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:32 PM, <crn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Kjetil Oftedal wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> With regards to testing on sun4d, I have run into problems with the >> existing kernel, during the process of getting a test system up and >> running. The system is unable to mount partitions correctly, >> (both ext2 on a hdd, and iso8859 on a cdrom), however dd, running from an >> initrd filesystem is able to read the ext2 blocks correctly. So I have >> started investigating this instead. >> >> Is there anyone aware of any alignment requirements in the sun4d on DMA >> transfers and such ? Or have the datasheet for the FAS2x6 (236) scsi >> controllers ? > > First check that you can see the drive correctly from the OBP > ok> probe-scsi-all > > If that is OK try booting with no SMP, I forget the correct incantation > but something like "max-cpus=1" sounds familiar. > > You could also try booting with a 2.2.x kernel, if that does not work > something is SERIOUSLY wrong. 2.2.x does not support SMP and has > always booted OK for me. > > Do you have Solaris, it should boot and run 2.6, 7, or 8 (last supported). > If this fails you certainly have hardware issues. > > Sorry to be vague, there has been no properly working Sun4d kernel > since 2.2.x so expect to find bitrot in all sorts of obscure places. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
